ADAM Strachan, 26, was caught in possession of £2000 worth of the drug during a police raid and was this week released by Clydebank juniors with a second prison sentence looming.

A FALLEN Scottish football star has been sacked by his latest club and is facing a second prison sentence after being caught in possession of heroin.

Adam Strachan - who made almost 100 appearances for Partick Thistle between 2004 and 2007 - has been axed by top junior outfit Clydebank after pleading guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to possessing drugs.

Strachan, who featured for the Bankies in Saturday's defeat against Auchinleck Talbot, was caught with 28 grammes of the class A drug by police who were searching a pal's flat in Maryhill.

The bust came just weeks after he had an electronic tag removed following a previous conviction for carrying knives. The 26-year-old will be sentenced for the drugs offence next month.

A Clydebank spokesman confirmed the player had been released from his contract this week and added: "Adam has pled guilty to drugs charge and this is not the type of conduct the club can be associated with.

"Sadly we have had to let him go and I say sadly because he was a player with great ability who lit up a lot of games at junior level and he really should have been playing at a higher level."

An official statement released by the Superleague club said: "Clydebank FC have released Adam Strachan from his contract with immediate effect due to circumstances in his private life."

Strachan was earmarked as a future star after picking up the man-of-the-match award in his Thistle debut against Livingston aged just 16.

But his career hit the skids after he left the Firhill club in 2008. He had a year at Ross County before spells with Dumbarton, Clyde and Arbroath but was jailed for 12 months in December 2012 after admitting two separate knives offences.

The thug was also given an 80-hour community payback order in 2009 for headbutting his then girlfriend Laura McDermott at a bus stop in Glasgow. In 2011 he was also given a year's probation for threatening Laura during a violent row at her flat in the city.

On his release from prison in 2013 Strachan was handed a second chance by Ayrshire junior side Irvine Meadow. He later joined Clydebank.

Strachan will be sentenced next month alongside Stephen Dunn who admitted being concerned in supplying drugs from the flat in Maryhill.